Description: Jury for CIA recruitment protest trial gets sworn in. Other court scenes. Footage of the 1986 protest. Assistant District Attorney Diane Fernauld makes the prosecution's case. Defense attorney Leonard Weinglass and UMass Amherst student Jennifer Johnston make opening arguments for the defense, accusing both the CIA and UMass Amherst of committing crimes, which the defendants were only trying to prevent. Judge Richard Conan allows defense witness to testify as to the crimes of the CIA, but has yet to decide if the jury will be allowed to consider this testimony.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/09/1987
Description: MIDDLESEX COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TOM DANEHY, JOHN LARKIN, MICHAEL MCLAUGHLIN IN COURTROOM
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1982
Description: DRUNK DRIVING HEARINGS IN BROCKTON COURTHOUSE, JUDGE, OATH, LAWYERS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/30/1984
Description: GENERIC COURTROOM FOOTAGE: JUDGE, WITNESS, BAILIFF, COURT CLERK
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/19/1984
Description: Silent footage of a rent control hearing in Cambridge. Court scenes. Spectators crowded into the balcony.
Collection: WHDH
Date Created: 12/08/1970
Description: Cameras in the courtroom for the first time. Supreme Judicial Court. Five justices enter and take seats on bench. Chief Justice Edward Hennessey calls first case. Defense attorney John McBride presents appeal of life sentence in murder case Commonwealth v. St. Germain.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/09/1980
Description: Bill Sawyer, Republican candidate for attorney general, decries findings about lax state judges and influence peddling in the courts. William Weld, Scott Harshbarger are also dismayed.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/27/1990
Description: Photos of Chad Green with his parents Jerry and Diana. He had leukemia and parents wanted him to be treated with laetrile in Mexico rather than the court ordered conventional chemotherapy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/29/1979
Description: Judge Paul Liacos is nominated Chief Justice of state Supreme Judicial Court. He is applauded for attention to overcrowded jails and decrepit courthouses. Robert Rufo.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/14/1989
Description: Superior Court Chief Justice Robert Steadman explains that case backlog burdens state judicial system. Rows of files, paperwork stacked in offices, clerk and judge in courtroom.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/20/1989